When
31 January 2026
Opening day online
6 to 13 February 2026
Activities in person
Were
Gorizia University Campus and field trips
Crediti formativi universitari – CFU
3 credits type D for study courses:
Architecture. Proactive Conservation of Heritage in Risk Areas (five-years master's degree)
Bacherlos degree Architecture
Bacherlos degree Product, visual communication and interior design
Bacherlos degree Planning and urban design
Master's degree Architecture
Master degree MA Architecture
Master's degree degree Planning and urban design: MS Urban and spatial planning for transition and Urbanistica e pianificazione per la transizione tracks
Who is it for?
The workshop is open to:
– Students (bachelor's and master's degrees) and doctoral students
– Researchers and professionals (architects, planners, geographers, anthropologists)
– Activists, third sector organisations and anyone interested in food and frontier landscape issues
Teachers
Sara Basso, Università di Trieste
con Camilla Venturini, Mariacristina D’Oria, Amerigo Alberto Ambrosi, Angelica Pianegonda
Registration and deadlines
By 17 January 2026
Assembling the transfrontier Atlas. Mapping food systems across the Gorizia–Nova Gorica border is an international, transdisciplinary and cross-border workshop, research initiative and project coordinated by Sara Basso (UniTS) with Camilla Venturini, Mariacristina D'Oria, Amerigo Alberto Ambrosi and Angelica Pianegonda. The transdisciplinary nature of the workshop involves knowledge and tools from architecture, urban planning, geography, landscape studies, environmental humanities, food studies, visual arts and territorial activation practices. The cross-border nature is at the heart of the teaching programme: activities take place on both sides of the Italian-Slovenian border, with mixed groups and joint work on shared case studies.
The aim is to contribute to the creation of a cross-border food atlas between Gorizia and Nova Gorica, exploring the Isonzo and border areas as a system of spaces, practices, actors and landscapes in transformation. Food is used as a common lens and language to interpret the relationships between the environment, cities, infrastructure, production chains, local cultures and forms of cross-border cooperation.
Programme overview
31 January (Online): cTheoretical capsules on the workshop content, food systems and food atlases, cross-border and border territories.
from 6 to 13. February (In person): Transdisciplinary and cross-border group work activities, organised into three lines of work: Food Chains: Cross-Border Narratives, Systems of Continuity: Revealing Hidden Patterns, Hybrid Stories: Retracing Landscapes
Field trips and exploratory walks between Gorizia and Nova Gorica, production of representations of the territory in different expressive forms: maps, diagrams, photographs, videos, photomontages, narrative texts, field notebooks, “sixteenths” and small installations.
The materials produced during the week will converge on the Transfrontier Atlas platform, as a basis for future research, planning and cooperation actions.
Registration and deadlines
Registrations must be received by 17 January 2026 by filling out the Google form below.